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Impacts of Sea-level Rise
Andy Plater, School of Environmental Sciences
Plater and Kirby (2011) Sea-Level Change and Coastal Geomorphic
Response. Chapter 3.03. Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science
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Climate Change and Rising Sea Level
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Coastal Vulnerability to Extreme Events
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The number of people living in cities in each country of the world in 2010, together
with the percentage of the population in countries with large urban populations.
Read more: http:www.businessinsider.com/small-cities-population-growth-by-2050-2012-
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http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/detail/coastal-population-and-altered-land-cover-in-coastal-zones-100-
km-of-coastline_7706
Megacities
>10 million
inhabitants
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So… how bad is it… how high…
where and when… and how likely?
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Catastrophic sea-level rise!!
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When does sea-level rise
flooding change from an
inconvenience to a life-
threatening hazard?
Street Level
Tidal Level
+ 30cm: St. Mark’s Square
flooded on 75% of tides, for 27%
of the year
+100 cm: 40% of street level
below MSL, St. Mark’s Square
>50cm below MSL
Pirazolli (1991) http://www.jstor.org/stable/4297819?seq=7
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Magnitude & Frequency?
Wolman and Miller (1960) http://geomorphology.sese.asu.edu/Papers/Wolman_
and_Miller_1960.pdf
Gradual (mm/yr) vs.
Catastrophic (m/hr)
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Sandy, 29th Oct 2012
Largest Atlantic hurricane – winds up
to 110 mph at sea
Storm surge of up to 4.2 m
More than 286 people killed across 7
countries (affected 24 states)
2nd costliest Atlantic hurricane: $50-
68 billion in damages
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Storm Surge Barriers:
Oosterschelde, Thames, Venice
Sand Kite –
27th October
1997
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Providing better sea-level
information for coastal
decision makers.
Projections at regional/local scale
Shennan et al. (2012) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.1532/pdf
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Better Understanding of
Coastal Response and
Resilience:
environments
geomorphology
sediment and flow patterns
water quality
ecosystems
urban infrastructure
resources
economy
people
sea-level
extreme events
sediment supply
hydrodynamics
human interventions
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Promoting Dynamic Coasts
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Maintaining ‘Healthy’
Beaches
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Increased water needs... more dams on rivers
• Changing hydrological regime
• Changing floodplain
inundation frequency
• Changing water quality
• Displaced people(?)
• Reducing sediment flux –
especially to coastal zone
• Changing coastal ecosystems
e.g. Colorado, Nile, Guadiana
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Yangtze tidal flats
• Reduced sediment accretion
• Enhanced vulnerability to erosion
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A New Realignment continuum?
Present: estuary-sandflat-mudflat-saltmarsh
Potential: estuary-sandflat-mudflat-saltmarsh-reedswamp-sedge fen-fen carr
(Mangrove equivalent)
Coastal Wetlands:
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Holocene sea-level rise 3-6 mm/yr, limited sediment
Persistent perimarine wetland in a barrier estuary
Plater, A.J. And Kirby, J.R. (2006). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 70 (1-2), 98-108
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Tsunami villagers give thanks to trees
By Sunil Raman
BBC News, Tamil Nadu
In 2002, a village in India's Tamil Nadu state
planted 80,244 saplings to enter the
Guinness World Records book.
Little did they realise at the time that the trees
would save their lives.
When the tsunami roared into the coast of
southern India on 26 December 2004 many
villages and towns were crushed as the giant
waves swept across open beaches.
But the people of Naluvedapathy in Vedaranyam
district, south of the Tamil Nadu's worst affected
areas around Nagapattinam, remained almost
unscathed.
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Bridging Operational Scales...
After Cowell and Thom (1994)
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Clarke et al. (in press)
The Holocene
Particle size evidence of
barrier and lagoon system
behaviour
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Drowned Landscapes:
Coastal Response to Rapid Sea-level Rise
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• English Channel seafloor
geomorphology comparable to Lake
Missoula floods (Gupta et al., 2007)
• Hastings Bank: drowned gravel
foreland similar to present Dungeness (Mellett et al., 2012, Marine Geology v.315-318)
• Barrier beach response to 8.2 ka SLR
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Dynamic Coastal
Response:
e.g. Probabilistic shoreline
retreat
Ranasinghe (2012)
Panzeri et al. (2012)
e.g. Xbeach modeling
Esteves et al (2012)
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Integrated Coastal Dynamics and Shoreline Evolution
SCAPE – Soft Cliff
and Shoreline
Erosion
Changing coastal
dynamics (sea level,
storms, sediment
supply) lead to
changing coastal
geomorphology
Walkden and Hall (2005)
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Arnstein, S.R. (1969)
"A Ladder of Citizen
Participation," Journal of
the American Planning
Association 35 (4), 216-224
Sustainable management of coastal resources:
more than a science issue...
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ARCoES Flood Risk Assessments
to 2500 AD
Flood and coastal risk mapping
requirement according to EA
guidelines for NNB (Cefas, EDF, NDA)
Jevrejeva et al. (2012) Global and
Planetary Change 80-81, 14-20.
First assessments are based on low
probability but plausible events from
the higher Representative
Concentration Pathway scenario
values.
LISFLOOD-FP modelling
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North-west Region Lowland: Landscape for Coastal Energy Infrastructure
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Summary
Providing decision-makers and stakeholders with reliable data at
appropriate resolution – working in partnership to address issues of
uncertainty, magnitude and frequency, limitations, caveats.
Promoting dynamic coasts: sedimentary and ecosystem ‘health’
Aiming to enhance coastal resilience by examining system behaviour
across scales (time and space), bridging ‘process’ and ‘geological’
understanding
Using models for exploring coastal response, feeding into decision-
support systems
Going beyond ‘communication’ - taking responsibility for sharing our
knowledge more widely and developing shared learning through
engagement.